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ASCOD
Sign in to saveThe ASCOD (Austrian Spanish Cooperation Development) armoured fighting vehicle family is the product of a cooperation agreement between Austrian Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG and Spanish General Dynamics Santa Bárbara Sistemas. Both companies are now divisions of a unit of General Dynamics. The ASCOD family includes the LT 105 light tank equipped with a 105 mm gun, a surface-to-air missile launcher, an anti-tank guided missile launcher, mortar carrier, R&R vehicle, command-and-control vehicle, ambulance, artillery observer, and the AIFV model.
Key facts
- Weapon.is_vehicle
- yes
- Weapon.type
- Armoured fighting vehicle (ASCOD Ulan/Pizarro)
- Weapon.service
- 2002–present
- Weapon.origin
- Austria and Spain
- Weapon.name
- ASCOD
- Weapon.image
- File:Trident Juncture 2018 181103-M-RI194-005.jpg
- Weapon.image_size
- 300px
- Weapon.caption
- The Spanish Armed Forces Pizarro variant of the ASCOD
- Weapon.used_by
- See Operators
- Weapon.length
- 6.83 m (22 ft) (Pizarro/Ulan), 9.5 m (31.16 ft) (ASCOD)
- Weapon.width
- 3.64 m (12 ft)
- Weapon.height
- 2.43 m (8 ft)
- Weapon.developed_into
- ASCOD 2 (ASCOD SV) Sabrah light tank GD Ajax GD Griffin M10 Booker
- Weapon.weight
- (ASCOD Pizarro) (ASCOD Ulan)
- Weapon.suspension
- torsion bar and Piedrafita rotary dampers models AR01 and AR02.
- Weapon.speed
- Road: 72 km/h
- Weapon.primary_armament
- 30 mm Mauser MK 30/2 (ASCOD Ulan/Pizarro)
- Weapon.secondary_armament
- MG3 7.62×51mm NATO (Pizarro) FN MAG 7.62×51mm NATO (Ulan/ASCOD 2)
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Encyclopedic overview
23 sectionsContents
- History
- Deployment history
- Design
- Armament
- Optics and fire control system
- Protection
- Mobility
- Characteristics
- Spanish version
- Structure
- Sensors
- Armament
- Propulsion
- Variants and derivatives
- ASCOD
- Spanish variant - Pizarro I and Pizarro II
- Austrian variant - Ulan
- ASCOD 2
- Operators
- Current operators
- See also
- References
- External links
The ASCOD (Austrian Spanish Cooperation Development) armoured fighting vehicle family is the product of a cooperation agreement between Austrian Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG and Spanish General Dynamics Santa Bárbara Sistemas. Both companies are now divisions of a unit of General Dynamics. The ASCOD family includes the LT 105 light tank equipped with a 105 mm gun, a surface-to-air missile launcher, an anti-tank guided missile launcher, mortar carrier, R&R vehicle, command-and-control vehicle, ambulance, artillery observer, and the AIFV model.
In Spanish service, the vehicle is called "Pizarro". The Austrian version is called "Ulan".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ASCOD” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.